Re: Stupid spaces

[Scott Taylor <scott@dctchambers.com>]

At 08:07 PM 02/12/2004, Emiliano Castagnari wrote:
>El  [ Thu 12, Feb 04 - 13:08 ] , Scott Taylor expreso:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've done this before, but so long ago I can't find it again.  I have a
> > bunch of files with spaces in them and I want to rename them with the
> > spaces removed.
> >
> > I have a rename command that came with RH7.2 but doesn't do the job
> > rename 's/\ //g' *
> > does nothing in bash
> >
> > So I wrote a script many moons ago to do this but I can't remember which
> > server it was on, let alone how I did it.  Something with tr and mv
> > methinks.
> >
> > anyone?
>
>Here you go, my simple aproach using the virtudes of bash scripting:

Interesting.  Only it doesn't "remove" the spaces it simply replaces them 
with something else.